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STARFLIGHT, INC. v. THONI

773 S.W.2d 908 (1989)

STARFLIGHT, INC. and The Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, Plaintiffs-Appellees v. Harold THONI, Dorothy Lewis Thoni, and the Administrator of the Estate of Harold Vincent Thoni, Deceased, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

June 26, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cindy L. Porter, Levine, Mattson, Orr & Young, Nashville, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Mary A. Parker, Jennifer Johns, Nashville, for defendants-appellants.

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

This case was instituted by Starflight, Inc. and its workers' compensation insurer to determine the status of a co-pilot of one of the company's planes who was killed in a crash near Oklahoma City on November 5, 1985. The trial court held that the co-pilot was an employee within the meaning of the Tennessee workers' compensation statute, thereby making applicable its exclusive remedy provisions and precluding any other form of...

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